- Music, Music Feature, Apr 23, 2013
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Chance the Rapper drops Acid Rap
The local MC's second mixtape is about to take him to some places he's only imagined.
- Music, Music Feature, May 3, 2012
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How Chicago house got its groove back
Chicago house music is the sound of global pop today. In the 90s, though, it was on life support—until a new wave of producers, including Cajmere and DJ Sneak, got the city doing the Percolator.
- Music, Music Column, May 6, 2010
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If You Weren't There . . .
Two of Chicago's earliest punk bands, Da and Tutu & the Pirates, reunite for a double record-release party
- Music, Gossip Wolf, Sep 23, 2010
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Look Who's Making Tracks With Travis
Kid Sister in the studio, plus a Maps & Atlases LP, new dollies by Archer Prewitt, good-bye to Graeme Gibson, and more
- Music, Gossip Wolf, Mar 4, 2010
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Dum Dum Girls and the Glimmer Twins
Gossip Wolf: HoZac lands hot girl-group action, the Stones dredge the barrel, Magas launches a Reckless new band, and more
- Music, Music Feature, Mar 6, 2013
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Here comes Mae Ya Carter Ryan
The 11-year-old Bronzeville native has a voice that sounds decades older than she is. People are starting to listen.
- Music, Music Column, Apr 1, 2010
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Music for Feet
The Chicago dance style footwork already has MTV's attention. But footwork music may be too weird for mainstream ears.
- Music, Music Feature, Apr 2, 2012
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Thank you Based God
The weird world of Internet-famous Bay Area rapper Lil B
- Music, Music Review, Jul 1, 2010
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Making Pop for Capitalist Pigs
M.I.A.'s tangled relationship with the consumer culture
- Music, Artist on Artist, Feb 4, 2013
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Artist on Artist: Buke & Gase talk to Ian Schneller of Specimen Products
"How do you come up with a new guitar, without it being too nerdy or geeky? It's such a well-worn path."
- Music, Music Review, Apr 22, 2010
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A Cult Artist’s Cult Artist
Who’s Jackie Leven? Ask Johnny Dowd, or Ron Sexsmith, or Pere Ubu's David Thomas.
- Music, Music Feature, Jun 13, 2012
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Spoon's last dance
For six decades, Fletcher Weatherspoon has been a pillar of Chicago’s African-American social-club scene. On Mother’s Day, he handed down his crown.
- Music, Gossip Wolf, Aug 12, 2010
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Kesha Calls Cutsies
The "Tik Tok" singer hops the queue for a tattoo, Har Mar's homecoming, and more "strange" music at the MCA
- Music, Music Feature, Feb 9, 2012
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Anna Clyne scores big
Symphonies still prefer dead composers, but Clyne beat the odds to land a plum job with the CSO at the tender age of 30
- Music, Music Feature, Feb 14, 2013
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Carla Kihlstedt's At Night We Walk in Circles and Are Consumed by Fire
Video from last month's world premiere at the Ecstatic Music Festival in New York
- Music, Music Feature, Feb 27, 2013
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Who's really doing the Harlem Shake?
What this month's biggest meme says about cultural property and appropriation on the Internet.
- Music, Music Feature, Jan 14, 2013
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Catching up with Mister Lies
Chicago producer Nick Zanca has had a whirlwind year, and his debut album doesn’t even come out till next month
- Music, Music Column, Apr 22, 2010
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Changing the Game
Is rap ready for Emanuel Vinson, a black, bisexual video-game geek who's into indie rock?
- Music, Music Column, Jul 16, 2009
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Naledge: New-School Mind, Old-School Grind
The Kidz in the Hall MC brings a craftsman’s work ethic to hip-hop’s Internet era.
- Music, Gossip Wolf, Mar 18, 2010
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James Brown's Body
The godfather's corpse takes a walk, Ryan Adams tries metal, Lady Gaga pumps G.I.S.M., and more
